Good start. We are making our shots and holding our own on the boards, always a good combination.

Big letdown in second half. Going to have to right the ship.

Number that sticks out to me, we had only 11 turnovers to 21 for USI. Balanced effort for us both scoring and rebounding. Nice game.

Very nice game overall. I’d say the final margin was about where it should have been. Chicago State isn’t 25 points better than USI like occurred in the first half, and things just balanced out over the course of the entire game.

Chicago State definitely showed what they are capable of tonight. I thought they’d come out firing on all cylinders like this from the first game on. That didn’t happen. But it’s nice to see them come together this quickly, from the progress made versus Mercer and on to this game. There is a lot left to work on, but a lot of good pieces are already in place.

Pretty good game by the team tonight. Yeah, a let down in the second half for sure but things ended up where they should be!

A big improvement in holding onto the ball as well as not being crazy with their fouls. Hopefully they’ll do a bit better in hitting wide open threes. They had a number of great looks that they weren’t able to take advantage of.

Kedrick Green is one of my favorite players anywhere. I’m so glad to see him playing well right now. Versus USI he had 8 assists with only 1 turnover. Add on 4 steals and 10 points, 2 of 2 from the line, and 4 rebounds, that’s a nice night for any point guard.

And, only 2 fouls I believe. And one of those was on the first possession on a 3 pointer, so only one after that for the rest of the game.

Chicago has a solid 6 players, but not enough depth after that. Keeping out of foul trouble is so important for them-more than for most teams. Brent Davis had 4 tonight, but nobody else had too many.

Ked had 4 versus Mercer with limited minutes. I think he’s too much of a playmaker to have on the bench much.

(11-12-2023 08:52 PM)joshadam84 Wrote:  Pretty good game by the team tonight. Yeah, a let down in the second half for sure but things ended up where they should be!

A big improvement in holding onto the ball as well as not being crazy with their fouls. Hopefully they’ll do a bit better in hitting wide open threes. They had a number of great looks that they weren’t able to take advantage of.

I think Coach Gillion will start working on a better plan for second half play where he has to rest some guys. A lot of the scoring USI did was when Chicago was rotating players. Some of theses bench players are going to step up and become solid contributors over the next few games and that will make those stretches a lot more stable. Jernigan or Crawford are two that can help in that department hopefully.